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                <p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">In the Enterprise Architect Corporate, Business and Software Engineering, Systems Engineering and Ultimate editions, the <a href="model_views_operations.htm">Model Views</a> facility enables you to:</span></p>
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<li><span class="f_Bulletlist1">automatically refresh the search in a View at an interval that you define</span></li>
<li><span class="f_Bulletlist1">notify you if the results of the search change between two consecutive searches.</span></li>
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<p class="p_TextIndentedL2"><img src="view%20properties.png" width="390" height="229" border="0" alt="View Properties"></p>
<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">You can therefore use the </span><span class="f_UIControl">Model Views</span><span class="f_BodyText"> facility to monitor various events in the development project, depending on how you set up the search in a View. You could, for example, set up a search to detect:</span></p>
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<li><span class="f_Bulletlist1">Change items, or Issue items, so that Enterprise Architect would notify you as new items were created</span></li>
<li><span class="f_Bulletlist1">Element Status, Type, Phase, Version, Priority and/or date of last update, so that Enterprise Architect would notify you as items were progressed to fall in to the level of work represented by the search categories, and to move out of the categories into the next level of work.</span></li>
<li><span class="f_Bulletlist1">Tagged Values, so that - again - as items were changed to satisfy the criteria of a sequence of searches, the progression of items through a set of stages could be checked and managed.</span></li>
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<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">People responsible for different stages in a process could have their own Model View searches so that as a development, validation or authorization task fell due the responsible person was automatically notified, and when the work was complete both the next person in line and the overseeing manager were notified.</span></p>




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